WHICH WE THOUGHT COULD LEAVE OUR INTENT OPEN TO MISINTERPRETATION. OUTRAGE FROM JEFFERSON CITY -- AFTER A KMBC 9 NEWS INVESTIGATION UNCOVERS HUNDREDS OF SEXUAL PREDATORS IN MISSOURI ARE SERVING A FRACTION OF THEIR SENTENCES. A BLUE SPRINGS SOCCER COACH IS ONE OF THEM... SENTENCED TO 15 YEARS IN PRISON -- BUT ONLY SERVED 120 DAYS. KMBC NINE'S HALEY HARRISON SHOWS US THE STATEMENTS READ BY THE VICTIM'S FAMILIES IN COURT. THEY'RE THE PARENTS' PLEAS... ...SAYING HE'S TURNED THREE YOUNG LIVES INTO ... THE NIGHTMARE STARTED A COUPLE YEARS AGO -- WHEN AN TWO 11 YEAR OLD HER, TOO ...WITH BURROUGHS TELLING HER, "LET'S JUST KEEP THIS BETWEEN US." AS PART OF HIS GUILTY PLEA TO THREE FELONY COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE CHILD MOLESTATION -- ATTORNEYS CUT A DEAL THAT KEPT THE GIRLS FROM TESTIFYING. STAND UP -- SO LAST AUGUST, AS THE COACH LEFT THE COURTHOUSE, HE WAS FACING A 15 YEAR PRISON SENTENCE AND ADMISSION INTO A UNIQUE MISSOURI PROGRAM FOR SEX OFFENDERS. IT MEANT JUST 120 DAYS LATER --ON CHRISTMAS DAY, RICHARD BURROUGHS WAS HEADED HOME. HE WAS OUT OF PRISON AND GIVEN FIVE YEARS PROBATION. EMILY VAN SCHENKHOF ... EMILY VAN SCHENKHOF OF MISSOURI KIDS FIRST SAYS THE PROGRAM IS COMING UNDER SCRUTINY. IT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS SEX OFFENDER ASSESSMENT UNIT. THROUGH OUR INVESTIGATION, RECORDS SHOW OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS -- MORE THAN SIX- HUNDRED SEXUAL PREDATORS WERE ADMITTED -- SOME UP TO 5 TIMES! NEARLY HALF WERE THEN LET OUT ON PROBATION. BUT 3 IN 10 TIMES THOSE SAME CONVICTED CRIMINALS ENDED UP GOING BACK TO PRISON FOR VIOLATING PROBATION OR COMMITING ANOTHER CRIME. JAY BARNES... JEFFERSON CITY REPUBLICAN JAY BARNES IS STUNNED SO MANY SEX OFFENDERS ARE BEING RELEASED. JAY BARNES... SINCE OUR INVESTIGATION, BARNS IS WRITING A BILL TO END THE PROGRAM. JAY BARNES... HALEY ALSO REACHED OUT TO JUDGE MICHAEL MANNERS, WHO RULED ON THIS CASE. HE'S SINCE RETIRED AND DID NOT RETURN OUR CALLS FOR COMMENT. SO FAR, BURROUGHS HAS NOT VIOLATED HIS PROBATION. HE LIVES IN GRAIN VALLEY BUT HAS ASKED THE COURT TO LET HIM MOVE BACK HOME WITH HIS FAMILY. HIS ATTORNEYS DECLINED TO COMMENT. REPRESENTATIVE BARNES SAYS HE'LL